loin des yeux ,loin du coeur distance from eyes , far from heart

I was reading about this song 'Sweetness follows' on Wikipedia. This song is about a man at the funeral of his parents. At the funeral however, he doesn't really feel anything "distanced from one, blind to the other". He talks to his brother and his sister and asks them why they came (because they weren't close to their parents either) and wonders if they'll feel anything at each other's funeral. He then resolves to feel good about life, and not care about death or funerals. There was a quote from Michael Stipe that said "I've written songs before that I thought were these incredible diatribes against organized religion, these numbing thoughts that this life doesn't matter because you're moving on to something better. That pretty much sums it up for me. He is saying "Live your life filled with joy and wonder/thunder" because it is ridiculous to assume that all these little things that can pull you under and the distance some of us feel from the ones we love will all be resolved somehow when we die. Organized religion tells us some other better world awaits us when we die; hence the line 'sweetness follows.'

Lyrics to 'Sweetness follows' Readying to bury your father and your mother, what did you think when you lost another? I used to wonder why did you bother, distanced from one, blind to the other? Listen here my sister and my brother what would you care if you lost the other? I always wonder why did we bother, distanced from one, deaf to the other. Oh, oh, but sweetness follows It's these little things, they can pull you under. Live your life filled with joy and wonder. I always knew this altogether thunder was lost in our little lives. Oh, oh, but sweetness follows. Oh, oh, but sweetness follows. It's these little things, they can pull you under. Live your life filled with joy and thunder. Yeah, yeah we were altogether lost in our little lives. Oh. Oh. Ah. Oh, oh, but sweetness follows. Oh, oh, but sweetness follows.